Top 100 Quotes About Reacting
#1. A 65-ft.-wide screen and 500 people reacting to the movie, there is nothing like that experience.
Michael Mann
#2. People aren't crazy, they're just reacting normally to an abnormally crazy world.
J.S.B. Morse
#3. When we are devoted to the development of kindness, it becomes our ready response, so that reacting from compassion, from caring, is not a question of giving ourselves a lecture: 'I don't really feel like it, but I'd better be helpful, or what would people think?'
Sharon Salzberg
#4. Law is downstream from culture. By the time you make a law about something, you're reacting, not acting. I'd rather shape the culture.
Rick Warren
#5. For your information, I am NOT overreacting. I'm REACTING. That's different. It's important to react when you're pissed off.
Cherie Currie
#6. As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day.
Michael Jordan
#7. I prefer the smaller acting than big histrionics. It's about reacting and looks, which is often underestimated.
Viggo Mortensen
#8. Listening is not merely hearing. Listening is reacting. Listening is being affected by what you hear. Listening is active.
Michael Shurtleff
#9. If you don't look at yourself and evaluate it, you instead see how the world's reacting to it.
Nick Offerman
#10. If you wish to find your answers, you'll need to begin thinking, not merely reacting.
Lily
Seanan McGuire
#11. Rain amplifies your mistakes, and water on the track can make your car handle unpredictably. When something unpredictable happens you have to react to it; if you're reacting at speed, you're reacting too late. And so you should be afraid.
Garth Stein
#12. We often add to our pain and suffering by being overly sensitive, over-reacting to minor things, and sometimes taking things too personally.
Dalai Lama
#13. Why is this class so lifeless? Like fools always watching to see how the next boy is reacting?
Yi Mun-Yol
#14. I try when I'm writing to leave enough "space" for people to have their own interpretation, and not to direct it toward one conclusion. Then the audience would not be reacting, because they are being preached to or lectured at. I don't have that much to say that I think people should listen to me.
Charlie Kaufman
#15. Acting is reacting ... there's a magic when you're working with another actor. With voice acting, you're doing it alone, all in your head. So, you have to re-create that essence by yourself. It's not necessarily more difficult. It's just a different set of skills.
Josh Keaton
#16. Rather than reacting with our usual attachment or aversion, taking everything personally and feeling the need to do something about it, we relax into the experience, seeing it clearly and letting it be as it is.
Noah Levine
#17. Personal soundness is not an absence of problems but a way of reacting to them.
Donald M. MacKinnon
#18. Life rarely follows a straight line. Success is a process of trying, reacting, and changing.
Ron Lizzi
#19. They're reacting and that's wonderful. It's better than them sitting there doing nothing. I say make them react - do whatever's in your power to move the audience, and if that's where it is, and there where it is with America, sex and violence, then I say project it.
Alice Cooper
#20. What I was being told in my 20s in the close-quartered, male-ego-infused work space, was that I had to stop reacting with my emotions to sexual desire towards me. The change, in other words, had to be made in me.
Cris Mazza
#21. When you're playing a fictional character reacting to the real world, it's incredibly difficult and confusing and kind of messes with your values a bit.
Ed Helms
#22. Can you, in a million years, imagine another female senator - Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Claire McCaskill - reacting to being called 'ma'am' like Barbara Boxer did? This is the kind of sanctimonious self-absorption on the modern left that makes my teeth itch.
Mark Davis
#23. Acting is reacting. You can't react if you're not paying attention, if you're not listening.
Reid Scott
#24. Everyone had their own agenda. She just had to stop reacting emotionally: decipher the real motives for their behaviour without taking every word as a personal attack.
Abby McDonald
#25. I learned something through the experiences in my life, and that is that you never judge how someone may be reacting to a situation because you don't know what they may be going through. It's important that you treat people well, and I try to make people feel good about themselves always.
Kimberly Schlapman
#26. Very few people stutter when they are standing alone in a room speaking to themselves, so how much did Ted's blindness free him from reacting to the perceptions of others?
Katherine Preston
#27. We've created an unnatural form of running. It's not just the shoes, but we run on artificial surfaces - straight ahead, hard and steady - instead of speeding up and slowing down, reacting to the terrain with changes of pace and rhythm.
Christopher McDougall
#28. As an actor, you can really play the intensity and gravity and seriousness of the moment, and just rely on the circumstances being funny. The joke is kind of the situation you're in, or the way you're reacting to something, as opposed to the characters just saying something witty.
Ed Helms
#29. Note to self: Try to stop reacting to surprises like a cartoon character.
Jane Jameson
Molly Harper
#30. All my books are accidental books - they come from reacting to things and thinking about things and engaging in a real way. They are not about, 'Oh, did it get a good review in the Guardian?' I don't care.
Arundhati Roy
#31. A grasp of the psychological mechanism behind taste will not necessarily change our sense of what we find beautiful, but it can prevent us from reacting to what we don't like with simple disparagement
Alain De Botton
#32. When a big play occurs for our team, I'm concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it. Most of the time, I don't see the great catch or the long run. What I'm looking at is how the other team defended it.
Tom Landry
#33. All reaction is limited by, and dependant on, what it is reacting against.
Gloria E. Anzaldua
#34. When you resort to shouting in conflict, you are reacting in the flesh. You have lost control of the only person you can control: yourself.
Neil T. Anderson
#35. I like to rehearse with the actors scenes that are not in the script and will not be in the film because what we're really doing is trying to establish their character, and good acting to me is about reacting.
Jim Jarmusch
#36. But then I realized how unhealthy it was, sensing the absence of life, not just in this building but everywhere, and not reacting - do you see? I guess you don't. But that used to be considered a sign of mental illness; they called it 'absence of appropriate affect.
Philip K. Dick
#37. Rather than reacting to every risk we hear and see, we should make an effort to discern which ones we can do something about.
Benjamin Carson
#38. Through out your life people will project many things onto you. The projections are not about you, they are about them. Most will actually have very little to do with who you actually are. Remember this instead of reacting.
Renae A. Sauter
#39. Men, I think, are not capable of doing nothing, of saying nothing, of not reacting to injustice, of not protesting against oppression, of not striving for the good of society and the good life in the ways they see it.
Nelson Mandela
#40. Very often, human beings are living like on autopilot, reacting automatically with what happens. What interests me about the life of an explorer is you are in the unknown; you are out of your habits.
Bertrand Piccard
#41. Real life is about reacting quickly to the opportunity at hand, not the opportunity you envisioned. Not thinking and scheming for the future, but letting it happen.
Conan O'Brien
#42. The ironic life is a life keenly alert, keenly sensitive, reacting promptly with feelings of liking or dislike to each bit of experience, letting none of it pass without interpretation and assimilation, a life full and satisfying - indeed a rival of the religious life.
Randolph Bourne
#43. We can't feel the rotation of the planet, but in some ways we can because our bodily systems are reacting to it and have it inherent in them. To me, that's such a powerful thought.
Jessa Gamble
#44. Maturity is reacting to non-sense with a smile rather than a comment.
Saru Singhal
#45. Children who experience anxious or ambivalent attachments to their primary caregivers may "fall in love" too easily, seeking extreme closeness right off the bat and reacting intensely to any suggestion of abandonment.
Adam Cash
#47. Independent will is our capacity to act. It gives us the power to transcend our paradigms, to swim upstream, to rewrite our scripts, to act based on principle rather than reacting based on emotion or circumstance.
Stephen R. Covey
#48. Reacting to the world with a smile instead of a curse, a wave instead of the middle finger, will actually help you live longer.
Russell Simmons
#49. In life you'll meet a lot of jerks. If they hurt you, tell yourself that it's because they're stupid. That will help keep you from reacting to their cruelty. Because there is nothing worse than bitterness and vengeance ... Always keep your dignity and be true to yourself.
Marjane Satrapi
#50. I used to spend so much time reacting and responding to everyone else that my life had no direction. Other people's lives, problems, and wants set the course for my life. Once I realized it was okay for me to think about and identify what I wanted, remarkable things began to take place in my life.
Melody Beattie
#51. People like to see will smith reacting to aliens
Megan Boyle
#52. Once you can clearly describe what you are reacting to, free of your interpretation or evaluation of it, other people are less likely to be defensive when they hear it.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#53. The decision to overlook the seeming inequities of life instead of reacting to them is a choice.
David Hawkins
#54. One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism.
Peter L. Berger
#55. I'm more interested in knowing my cues than my lines. If you know what your cues are, then you know what your reaction is going to be to them. Acting is about reacting, and if I can kind of purely react, that's easier for me.
Stephen Root
#56. When Arab apologists wring their hands over an Israeli military incursion, they never mention what the Israelis are reacting to, or else diminish and distort it.
Jack Schwartz
#57. Real freedom is creative, proactive, and will take me into new territories. I am not free if my freedom is predicated on reacting to my past.
Kenny Loggins
#58. How often are you aware of your surroundings, really aware? And how often are you merely reacting in the same automatic way as you do in dreams?
Stephen LaBerge
#59. It is the spaces we must be concerned with. With clearing them out. Because of the contexts within them. With less context reacting us, we might all be safer. More efficient. I stare at the building across the road, and I wonder about its presence. Its residential spaces. Its malice.
Darin Bradley
#60. This simple idea served to provide information on the geometrical shape of reacting molecules, and I was able to make the role of the frontier orbitals in chemical reactions more distinct through visualization, by drawing their diagrams.
Kenichi Fukui
#61. F.D.R. achieved greatness not by means of imposing his temperament and intellect on the world but by reacting to what the world threw at him.
Maureen Dowd
#62. I'm just a man. I think people are reacting to something else when they see me. They're not reacting to me, Eddie Murphy. They don't even know me. It's just luck and the God in me they're reacting to.
Eddie Murphy
#63. Obama, like Carter, is reacting to warning signs by seeking to split the difference between dispirited Democrats and increasingly radicalized Republicans.
Eric Alterman
#65. By choosing to be kind instead of cruel, we can break the karmic chain of reacting to violence with more violence, contributing to a more peaceful future for everyone.
Sharon Gannon
#66. I don't put any thought into the footballs after I choose them. When you're out there playing in front of 70,000 people, like a home crowd, you don't think about it. You're just reacting to the game.
Tom Brady
#67. I feel like we're stuck in the former mode of reacting because that's what gains traction in Washington. But I really believe we need a robust public good argument. Net neutrality is not just about creating the next Instagram or Farmville or whatever.
Astra Taylor
#68. If you look at the evolution of the brain, the logic centers, they were growing at the same time as the creative centers were expanding. And that creates this really potent illusion that you're not just a bag of chemicals reacting to shit. Which is what you are.
Tim Cannon
#69. The simple practice of hesitation helps you stop reacting blindly to everything that happens.
Ma Jaya
#70. Once you attach your personality to a proposition, people start reacting to the personality and stop reacting to the proposition.
Harvey MacKay
#71. Painting is a fine art: not merely because it gives us trees and faces and lovely things to see, but because paint is a finely tuned antenna, reacting to very unnoticed movement of the painter's hand, fixing the faintest shadow of a thought in color and texture.
James Elkins
#72. A lot of my work is a matter of reacting to surprises in life.
Alexander Wang
#73. All bodies are different, all bodies have their own individual way of reacting to the work we make them do.
Anna Kessel
#74. Reacting is automatic, but thinking is not.
David Allen
#75. Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties.
Kirk Hammett
#76. There's this freshness that happens within the first few takes of the actors actually listening to each other and actually really reacting.
Jennifer Lawrence
#77. Got niggas reacting without a sinus cause what I'm working with is timeless.
Drake
#78. When we latch on to an identity, it is easy to take offense. But we offend ourselves. We lock ourselves into very rigid ways of seeing and thinking and feeling and reacting. It doesn't have to be this way. The fact is, I'm not anything in particular. Nor are you. Nor is anyone.
Steve Hagen
#79. I usually don't find myself reacting to my characters. I just create them ... And let the audience decide whether they're empathetic or scared or compelled to cheer me on.
Doug Hutchison
#80. We are all simply reacting, played by events that occurred centuries before.
Marti Melville
#81. I like Obama, but I understand that his hands are tied, the way Congress is reacting. It's just partisan politics everywhere, and don't know how we going to get things done in the future without compromising a little bit.
Ice Cube
#82. The murder of a dozen innocent people is unquestionably a human tragedy. But that is no excuse for reacting blindly by preventing hundreds of thousands of other people from defending themselves against meeting the same fate.
Thomas Sowell
#83. Originally what I used to love was being on a stage and reacting to a live audience and maybe my calling is more in theatre.
Emma Watson
#84. The reality is that most innovative work is incremental improvement. It's about staying ahead of trends as opposed to reacting to trends.
Bill Sheridan
#85. It's better to act than it is to react. Acting gets you in trouble. Reacting all too frequently gets you dead.
Seanan McGuire
#86. She took pictures of germs, viruses, and people reacting to germs and viruses. On weekends, for extra money, she photographed weddings, which really wasn't that much of a stretch
David Sedaris
#87. The lesson: Be aware of the incredible power of social media and the dangers of reacting to news that you haven't verified.
Ric Edelman
#88. Let me formulate the artistic disposition as follows: it is reacting with one's ideal to the flaw in oneself and in the world, and somehow making that reaction formation solid enough in the medium so that it indeed becomes an improved bit of real world for others.
Paul Goodman
#89. If we didn't spend so much time reacting to things, we would spend less time feeling bothered. We would be able to relax in our lives the way our mind relaxes in meditation.
Angelina Love
#90. Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
Nathan Fillion
#91. For the past weeks I'd been reacting. That was no way to win. To win, you take the initiative. You instigate the action. You make the opponent react to you.
Richard Marcinko
#92. Race is a constant factor in American life. Yet reacting to every incident,real or imagined, is crippling, tiring, and ultimately counterproductive.
Condoleezza Rice
#93. Uninformed and yet open to appeals for justice as they are, Americans are capable of reacting as they did to the ANC campaign against apartheid, which finally changed the balance of forces inside South Africa.
Edward Said
#94. The best thing about football for me is the reacting. It's a lot of instincts. But training, for me, it's more for the meditating. And I spend more time training than actually playing football. So I get into that zone during training more than anything.
Troy Polamalu
#95. The most important thing about being in wrestling is that you have to connect with the crowd, connect with the fans, and you either want them to love you, or to hate you. Either way, so long as they're reacting to what you're doing.
Chris Jericho
#96. I look at him, not because he just told me to, but because of the word he used. Baby. It does the kind of thing to my chest that makes me feel uncomfortable - the squeezing, tightening, pitter-pattering bullshit. Ugh, knock it off, heart. You've got no business reacting to him.
J.M. Darhower
#97. Therefore, reading and reacting to other people's behaviors, emotions, and attitudes have been hardwired into our brains. We are not only wired to connect, but we are also wired to attune to, resonate with, and learn from others.
Louis Cozolino
#98. First I would probably place men at the bottom of the food chain. On a grander scale, I would say they're reacting to change. Feminism has got to be part of that.
Neil LaBute
#99. Look at the product pipeline, look at the fantastic financial results we've had for the last five years. You only get that kind of performance on the innovation side, on the financial side, if you're really listening and reacting to the best ideas of the people we have.
Steve Ballmer
#100. The key to acting is less acting and just reacting.
Ken Marino
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